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LINCOLN CENTENARY 



FEBRUARY 12, 1909 



The weary form, that rested not, 
Save in a martyr's grave; 

The care-worn face that none forgot, 
Turned to the kneeling slave. 

We rest in peace, where his sad eyes 
Saw peril, strife and pain; 

His was the awful sacrifice, 

And ours, the priceless gain. 

John G. Whittier 



D. Of D. 

FEB 28 1910 



NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 



Lincoln Centenary 



FEBRUARY 12, 1909 



A PROSPECTUS FOR THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE COMPILED BY 
HARLAN HOYT HORNER 




by permission of tlie Lincoln History Society 

Lincoln's birthplace 



ALBANY 

NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 
1909 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN \&&**m#% 



[O man has expressed the feelings of America so well as President 
Lincoln ; and no man in this or any other land has been more 
truly great. He was the child of poor parents. He was born in a 
log cabin. He went to school but little because he lived where there 
were no schools. When a boy and young man he worked hard with 
his hands and it gave him a healthy body. He studied a few good 
books and it gave him a clear head. He liked history. He mastered 
mathematics and did surveying. He was interested in politics, and 
his mind grasped the laws easily. He read about the principles of 
government, and thought about the rights of men. He became a 
lawyer. He was elected to the Legislature of Illinois, and then to the 
Congress of the United States. The experiences thus gained helped 
to make him a successful lawyer. He was much interested in the 
affairs of the people, in universal justice, and in the good of his country. 
He thought for himself, and he thought hard and straight. He had a 
keen sense of humor and a fine gift of wit. He wrote so plainly, and 
he spoke in public so clearly, that all the people could. understand him. 
But he had even greater qualities. His habits were simple and he lived 
without great show. He was true and sincere, and the people believed 
in him. All these things made him a leader, a statesman, and a very 
great man. The country was deeply agitated about slavery. It had 
existed in all of the states in earlier years ; and it then existed in all of 
the Southern States, where there were five millions of slaves. He 
abhorred human bondage, but he abhorred war also. The laws allowed 
slavery in the South, and he thought it impossible to change the laws 
and abolish slavery without bringing on a war between the Northern 
and the Southern States. He hoped for an easier and better way. 
But many tried to carry slavery into the new states and territories that 
were being formed beyond the Mississippi river. He was opposed to 
that, whether war came or not. He spoke hundreds of times against 
it, and what he said made him President of the United States. This 
brought on a dreadful war, which lasted four years. Great armies of 

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citizens were organized to save the Union. Half a million of the best 
men in the country, North and South, lost their lives. There was 
sorrow in nearly every family, and distress in almost every home. In 
the midst of the war President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proc- 
lamation, freeing all the slaves. It was the greatest act of a great and 
noble President, who was right in his reasoning, clear in his statements, 
courageous in his acts, and humane in his treatment of all upon whom 
the war brought misfortune. He thought little of himself. He wanted, 
above all things, to save the Union. He was very happy when he 
came to believe that he could make the nation wholly free and 
save the Union at the same time. Guided by God, in whom he 
bel.eved, he led the forces of Freedom and Union to a splendd national 
triumph ; and all, including the people of the South, are now glad of it. 
The abolition of slavery brought freedom to all who live under the flag 
of the Union, and opened the way for us to become a more united 
and a very much greater nation. Just as the war ended, when 
President Lincoln was fifty-six years old, he was assassinated, and all 
the people mourned as never before nor since. His life was the best 
expression we have ever had of the humanity, the industry, the sense, 
the conscience, the freedom, the justice, the progress, the unity, and the 
destiny of the Nation. His memory is our best human inspiration. So 
we may well honor ourselves by studying about him and by holding 
special exercises in the schools in memory of him upon the one 
hundredth anniversary of his birth. 



STATE CF NEW YORK 

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 

DECEMBER 28, 1908 




O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! 



O Captain I my Captain I our fearful trip is done. 
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won. 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting. 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ; 
But O heart ! heart ! heart 1 

O the bleeding drops of red. 

Where on the deck my Captain lies. 
Fallen cold and dead. 

O Captain I my Captain 1 rise up and hear the bells ; 
Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills. 
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding. 
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning ; 
Here Captain ! dear father I 

This arm beneath your head 1 

It is some dream that on the deck 
You've fallen cold and dead. 

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still. 
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, 
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done. 
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won ; 
Exult O shores, and ring O bells 1 
But 1, with mournful tread. 

Walk the deck my Captain lies. 
Fallen cold and dead. 

Walt Whitman 




Lincoln and Tad 



Lincoln's two little boys " Willie" and "Tad " were his closest companions after he went to the White 
House. After Willie's death, Tad received a double share of his father's affection. He had dogs and goats 
and ponies, and his father was rarely able to deny him anything. The President once sent this message to Mrs 
Lincoln when she and Tad were absent from Washington: "Tell Tad the goats and father are very well, 
especially the goats." Tad was on friendly terms with the President's cabinet and on one occasion Secretary 
of War Stanton commissioned him a lieutenant in the United States army. The proud young officer promptly 
secured muskets and drilled the servants in the White House in the manual of arms. The above cut is 
reproduced through the courtesy of Mr W. C. Crane, New York city. 



THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 

^OURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon 
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to 
the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged 
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so 
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great 
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that 
field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that 
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do 
this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, 
we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, 
who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add 
or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we 
say here ; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the 
living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they 
who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for 
us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from 
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for 
which they gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly 
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that this nation, 
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government 
of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from 
the earth. 



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service and this paper was found upon his dead body after the Battle of Five Forks. 



LINCOLN, THE POLITICIAN 

Lincoln's character was many sided. In any study of his life it must not be overlooked that he was at all 
times a shrewd and skilful politician. Many of his letters reveal this. The following letter is a typical one : 

Confidential 

Springfield, Illinois, May 25, 1849 
Hon. E. Embree. 

Dear Sir : I am about to ask a favor of you — one which I hope will 
not cost you much. I understand the General Land Office is about to 
be given to Illinois, and that Mr Ewing desires Justin Butterfield, of 
Chicago, to be the man. I give you my word, the appointment of Mr 
Butterfield will be an egregious political blunder. It will give offense to 
the whole Whig party here, and be worse than a dead loss to the 
administration of so much of its patronage. Now, if you can consci' 
entiously do so, I wish you to write General Taylor at once, saying that 
either I, or the man I recommend, should in your opinion be appointed 
to that office, if any one from Illinois shall be. I restrict my request to 
Illinois because you may have a man from your own State, and I do 
not ask to interfere with that. 

Your friend as ever 

A. LINCOLN 



LINCOLN'S DEFINITION OF EQUALITY 



T THINK the authors of that notable instrument (the Declaration of 
Independence) intended to include all men, but they did not intend 
to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to 
say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social 
capacity. They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects 
they did consider all men created equal — equal with "certain inalien^ 
able rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 
This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the 
obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor 
yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, 
they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to 
declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as 
circumstances should permit. 

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beginning and ending in the hand of the Chief Clerk. The document was first transmitted from Washington 
to Albany with a letter signed by Frederick W. Seward. Assistant Secretary of State and addressed to Mrs 
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WHAT PRESIDENTS HAVE SAID OF LINCOLN 



**^HE grief of the nation is still fresh. 

W It finds some solace in the consider- 
ation that he lived to enjoy the highest proof 
of its confidence by entering on the re- 
newed term of the Chief Magistracy to 
which he has been elected." Johnson 

" A man of great ability, pure patriotism, 
unselfish nature, full of forgiveness to his 
enemies, bearing malice toward none, he 
proved to be the man above all others for 
the great struggle through which the nation 
had to pass to place itself among the great' 
est in the family of nations." Grant 

" To him, more than to any other man, 







The dome of the Capitol at Wash- 

ington which was unfinished when the cause or the Union and liberty is in- 

Lincoln was inaugurated debted for its final triumph." Hayes 

" He was one of the few great rulers whose wisdom increased 
with his power, and whose spirit grew gentler and tenderer as his 
triumphs were multiplied." Garfield 

" A supremely great and good man." Cleveland 

"In the broad common-sense way in which he did small things, he 
was larger than any situation in which life had placed him." Harrison 

" The story of this simple life is the story of a plain, honest, manly 
citizen, true patriot, and profound statesman, who believing with all the 
strength of his mighty soul in the institutions of his country, won because 
of them the highest place in its government, — then fell a precious sac- 
rifice to the Union he held so dear, which Providence had spared his 
life long enough to save." Mc Kinley 

" Nothing was more noteworthy in all of Lincoln's character than 
the way in which he combined fealty to the loftiest ideal with a 
thoroughly practical capacity to achieve that ideal by practical methods. 
He did not war with phantoms; he did not struggle among the clouds; 
he faced facts ; he endeavored to get the best results he could out of the 
warring forces with which he had to deal." Roosevelt 

"Certain it is that we have never had a man in public life whose 
sense of duty was stronger, whose bearing toward those with whom 
he came in contact, whether his friends or political opponents, was 
characterized by a greater sense of fairness than Abraham Lincoln." 

President Elect Taft 

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From "Abraham Lincoln, (he Boy and the Man" by James Morgan 

Lincoln and his Cabinet 

Lincoln's cabinet officers throughout his Presidency were as follows: 

Secretary of State. Wi I Nam H . Seward of New York : Secretary of the Treasury. Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, 
succeeded by William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, who was later succeeded by Hugh McCulloch of Indiana ; 
Secretary of War. Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, succeeded by Edwin M. Stanton of Ohio : Secretary 
of the Navy, Gideon Welles of Connecticut : Secretary of the Interior. Caleb B. Smith of Indiana, succeeded 
by John P. Usher of Indiana ; Attorney General. Fdward Bates of Missouri, succeeded by James Speed of 
Kentucky; Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair of Missouri, succeeded by William Dennison of Ohio. 

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LINCOLN'S RELIGION 



Lincoln's religion was peculiarly his own. He did not belong to any church but he had a firm faith and 
belief in God. In the campaign of I860, he was greatly pained by the canvass of the voters in Springfield 
which showed that of the twenty clergymen in the city all but three were against him. In speaking of this to 
Hon. Newton Bateman, then State Superintendent of Schools in Illinois, Lincoln said : 



I know there is a God and that he hates injustice and slavery. I see 
the storm coming and I know His hand is in it. If He has a place and 
work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, 
but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty 
is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that 
a house divided against itself can not stand, and Christ and reason say 
the same thing; and they will find it so. Douglas doesn't care whether 
slavery is voted up or voted down, but God cares and humanity cares, 
and I care; and with God's help I shall not fail. I may not see the 
end, but it will come and I shall be vindicated ; and these men will find 
that they have not read their Bibles aright. 



LETTER TO MRS BIXBY 



Executive Mansion 

Washington, Nov. 21, 1864 
To Mrs Bixby, Boston, Mass. 

Dear madam. I have been shown in the files of the War Depart- 
ment a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you 
are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of 
battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which 
should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. 
But I can not refrain from tendering ycu the consolation that may be 
found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our 
Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and 
leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the 
solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon 
the altar of freedom. 

Yours very sincerely and respectfully 

A. LINCOLN 



LINCOLN'S KINDNESS TO A LITTLE GIRL 



TN the autumn of 1 860, a little girl living at Westfield, N. Y.„ by the 
name of Grace Bedell wrote a letter to President Elect Lincoln at 
Springfield, Illinois, telling him how old she was, where she lived, and 
that she thought he would make a good President but that he would be 
better looking if he would let his whiskers grow. She also suggested 
that he might have his little girl answer her letter if he did not have time 
to do it himself. In a few days she got this reply : 

Springfield, Illinois, October 19, 1860 
Miss Grace Bedell. 

My dear little Miss: Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is 
received. I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughter. I 
have three sons — one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age. 
They, with their mother, constitute my whole family. As to the 
whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call 
it a silly piece of affectation if I were to begin it now ? 

Your very sincere well'Wisher, 

A. LINCOLN 

In February 1861 when Lincoln was on his way to Washington 
to be inaugurated, he stopped at the principal cities along the way, 
in order that he might speak upon the questions uppermost in the minds 
of the people. When the train left Cleveland, Ohio, Mr Patterson of 
Westfield, N. Y. was invited into Lincoln's car, and Lincoln asked him 
if he knew any one living at Westfield by the name of Bedell and then 
told of his correspondence with Grace. When the train reached 
Westfield, Lincoln spoke a few woi ds from the platform to the people 
and then said he would like to see Grace Bedell if she were there. 
The little girl came forward and Lincoln stepped down from the car 
and kissed her and said : " You see, Grace, I have let my whiskers 
grow for you." 

A clergyman, calling at the White House, in speaking of the war 
said to the President, " I hope the Lord is on our side." 

"I am not at all concerned about that," replied Lincoln, "for I 
know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my 
constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the 
Lord's side." 

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Lincoln's Springfield residence 



THE FAREWELL ADDRESS AT SPRINGFIELD 



mY Friends : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my 
feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness 
of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a 
century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my 
children have been born, and one is buried. 1 now leave, not knowing 
when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater 
than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of 
that Divine Being who ever attended him, I can not succeed. With 
that assistance, I can not fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, 
and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently 
hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I 
hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate 
farewell. 

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AN EDITORIAL IN THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE APRIL 14, 1865 



TB25fc: S>AIVN «JF I'KACE. 

Th8 path of Peace opens pleasantly before as. 
There may be thorns in the way as we advance, 
obstacles to be rear. - and snares to 

be avoided, bui o the dread road 

we have traveled for four lung and weary and 
painful years, and the road before us smiles 
only with Summer sunshine. It id natural 
for man to indulge- in hope, and 
hopo is not always illusive. That 
the war ie over is a mighty fart, The courage, 
the endurance, the patriots sacrifice 

that have stood the tost of this gigantic struggle 
have borne the heaviest burdeL that can be laid 
upon the heart and the character of a nation, 
and whatever else ma bet) is we accept 

the future with a el tb&t needs 

no abatement, v I da1 should 

bo dimmed with no gloomy antici- 
pations. There are ships that will encounter 
the toughest storms anci iot to pieces in the 
palms that succeed them. But ours is not one 
of these. The storm caught OS with our 
rigging unbraced, on" sails flapping, our 
decks in disorder, cur yards unmanned, 
our rudder unshipped. A 6hip put in 
order to encounter peril amid such multiplied 
dangers and that then rode oat the tempest is 
too stanch and too well-couditioued to- fear 
any wind that blows or any swell it can up- 
heave. With flag and pennant streaming gaily 
out upon the breese she a tew departure 

upon a sa ; 

It is a mo?nent only for rejoicing. The houvs 
of despondency — h^« r mtvn^ -n-c. nave passed 
through !—the fears that courage, or strength, 
or resources might fail us, have passed away. 
The good fight has been fought; the Eight has 
triumphed. We are u Nation, no longer divided 



agcinsc itself, but one, indivisible, united, 

Free. The darkness, the gloom, the doubts, 
the fears, have gone forever, and the hearts of 
all the people sing together for joy. Even 
those that are stricken with a sorrow that can 
never be forgotten, smitten with bereavements 
for which there can be no earthly cure—even 
these will rejoice with a tenderer joy inasmuch 
as the gifts they have laid upon the country'* 
altar are above all price. 
The war is over. Too house is to' bo set 
■:- of disorder exists 
no" 1oC, ' :.:k the President 

has issu< " ■ ffi irionB giving notice 

to the world *£** w e &r« not now a 
distracted aouseholdj ^h«i the nations are to 
i ti ase .'■ peccwdingly, and cannot 
again b3 permitted t» teS * a — nwfo«M*t«i£o 
of our . ii:tion. To-day we publish 

an ordei War Department, that the 

draft and • are to be stotsji; that no 

more aim- a ", • ; - are to be purchased; 

that the expenses of the military establishment 
are to be reduced j that military restrictions upon 
trade and commerce are to be removed; that 
the Government, in short, no longer needs to call 
upon th8 country for msm and means to carry 
on the War, for the gates of the temple arc 
swinging on their hinges, and will close 
presently, firmly and silently I The dispensa- 
tion, is over ; the new era begun ! The throes, 
the pains, the tortures of birth are finished. A 
now world is born, and the Sun of Peace rises 
in splendor to send abroad over the land its rays 
of warmth and light! Never before had nation 
so much cause for devout Thanksgiving; never 
before had a people so much reason for unre- 
strained congratulation and the very extrava- 
gance of joy. 



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FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE APRIL 15, 1865 



[HIGHLY IMPORTANT if p 



; ; Tke President Shot! 



Secrstsry ®2T7ar$ AtfaeketL 



WEST DISPATCH. 
To the Associated Press. 

"Washington. Friday, April 14, i865. 
Tho President was shot in a theater to-night 
and perhaps mortally grounded, 

SECOND DISPATCH. 

! To Editors: Our Washington agent orders 
the dispatch about the President "stopped." 
Nothing is said about the tenth or falsity of tho 
dispatch. 

THIRD DHPATOH. 
; Special Dbpatcb to The N. i". Tribute. 

The President was just shot at Ford 
Theater. The ball entered his neck. It in not known! 
whether the wound ia mortal Intense excitement. 

FOURTH DISPATCH. 
Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribuu*. 

The President expired at a quarter to twelve 

FIFTH DISFATCF, 
To th«j Associated res*. 

"Washington. April 15—12:30 a. in 

The President was shot in a theater to-night,| 
and is perhaps mortally wounded. 

The President is not expected to live through] 
the night. He was shot at a theater. 

Secretary Seward wa3 also assassinated. 

No arteries were cut, 

Particulars soon. 

SIXTH DISPATCH. 
Special Dispatch to The EC Y. Tribune. 

Washington, Friday, April 14, 1863 
Like a clap of thunder out of clear skjj 
spread the announcement that Pre'sidcn 



We give the above dispatches in the order in] 
eh they reached us, the first having been' 1 
received a little before midnight, f 
know that every line, every letter! 
will bo read with the intensest interest. 
In the sudden shock of a calamity! 
so appalling we can do little else than give! 
[such details of the murder of tho President as. 
[have reached us. Sudden death is always over-: 
Iwhelmingj assassination of the humblest of? 
[men is always frightfully startling; when the? 
jhead of thirty millions of people is hurried! 
Onto enmity by the ha ad of a murderer— I 
(that head a man so good, so wise, so noble* 
[as Abraham Lincoln, the Chief Magistrate off. 
Ja nation ia the condition of oars at this ino 
imeut,~the sorrow and the shock are too greatfoTJ 
■many words. There are none in all this broad 
lland to-day who love their country, who wish 
Swell to their race, that will not bow down in 
profound grief at the event it has broughtS 
upon us. For once all party rancor Willi 
be forgotten, and no righMhinkmg man 
lean bear of Mr. Lincoln's death without 
jeepting it as a national calamity. We 
jean give in these its first moments, 
[no thought of the fatal 3. God, in his inst-ruta- 
>le Providence, has thus visited the Nation; 
[the future we must leave to Sim. 

"Later. ~ The accounts are confused and con- 
tradictory. One dispatch announces that 
the President died at 12£ p. m. Another, 
Jan hour later, states that he is 
[still living, but dying slowly. We 
[go to press without knowing tho exact truth, 
rat presume there is not the ,- 

[t wounded, but wi re not Lulled. Jiutl 

.there caa be little hope that the Secretary ca 
.rally with this additional and frightful wound. 



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Ford's theater, where Lincoln was assassinated 



THE DEATH OF LINCOLN 



Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare. 
Gentle and merciful and just ! 

Who, in the fear of God, didst bear 
The sword of power, a nation's trust I 



Thy task is done ; the bond are free : 
We bear thee to an honored grave. 

Whose proudest monument shali be 
The broken fetters of the slave. 



In sorrow by thy bier we stand. 
Amid the awe that hushes all. 

And speak the anguish of a land 
That shook with horror at thy fall 



Pure was thy life ; its bloody close 
Hath placed thee with the sons of light, 

Among the noble host of those 

Who perished in the cause of Right 

William Cullen Bryant 



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House opposite Ford's theater, in which Lincoln died 



With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness 
in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the 
work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him 
who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan 
— to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace 
among ourselves, and with all nations. 



ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
A select reading list 

Annotations quoted and adapted from: A. L. A. Booklist; New York State Library Best 
Books; A. L. A. Catalog 1904; Mc Curdy and Coulter's Bibliography of Holidays. 

Works 

Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches. (See Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. Riverside lit. 
ser. no. 133 6- 132, p.37-88) 

First inaugural address. March 4, 1861. (See Johnston, Alexander, ed. Represent- 
ative American orations. N.Y. 1888. v.3, p.141-63) 

Gettysburg address. (See Johnston, Alexander, ed. Representative American 

orations. N.Y. 1888. v.3, p.243-44) 

Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865. (See Johnston, Alexander, ed. Repre- 
sentative American orations. N.Y. 1888. v.3, p. 245-48) 

Biographies 

Binns, H. B. Abraham Lincoln. 379 p. D. N.Y. 1907. Dutton, $1.50. (Temple 
biographies) 

A valuable presentation, by an Englishman, of the life and character of the man ; not a history of America 
during his time. 

Hapgood, Norman. Abraham Lincoln, the man of the people. 450 p. D. N.Y. 
1899. Macmillan. $2. 

Attempts to portray the man with absolute honesty, setting forth faults and shortcomings together with 
fine and strong characteristics. 

Morse, J. T. jr. Abraham Lincoln. 2 v. D. Boston, 1895. Houghton, $2.50. 
(American statesmen) 

Best brief life of Lincoln. 

Nicolay, John G. A short life of Abraham Lincoln. 578 p. O. N.Y. 1902. Century, 
$2.40. 

Condensed from Nicolay &■ Hay's Abraham Lincoln, a history in 10 volumes. 
Rothschild, Alonzo. Lincoln, master of men; a study in character. 531 p. O. Bost. 

1906. Houghton, $3. 

Interesting and brilliant study from a point of view heretofore little emphasized. 

Tarbell, I. M. & Davis, J. Mc C. The early life of Abraham Lincoln. 240 p. O. 
N.Y. 1896. McClure, $1. 

Trustworthy, sympathetic account, with good illustrations. 

Biographies for younger readers 

Brooks, Noah. Abraham Lincoln: a biography for young people. 476 p. D. N.Y. 

1888. Putnam, $1.75. (Boys' and girls' lib. of American biography, v.3) 
Coffin, C. C. Abraham Lincoln. 542 p. O. N.Y. 1893. Harper. $3. 

Strong points are its readableness, its happy selection of matter likely to be of general interest and the 
numerous good illustrations. 

Morgan, James. Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man. 435 p. D. N.Y. 1908. 
Macmillan, $1.50. 
Straightforward, simple story of Lincoln's life. 

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Nicolay, Helen. The boy's life of Lincoln. 307 p. D. N.Y. 1906. Century, $1.50. 
Based upon Nicolay 6- Hay's life. For upper grades. Originally published in St Nicholas, v. 33-34, Nov. 
1905- Nov. 1906. 

Sparhawk, F. C. A life of Lincoln for boys. 328 p. D. N.Y. 1907. Crowell, 75c. 

Easily understood by children of 12 and older. 
Stoddard, W. O. The boy Lincoln. 248 p. D. N.Y. 1905. Appleton, $1.50. 

Poetry about Lincoln 

Bryant, W. C. The death of Lincoln. (See his Poetical works. Household ed. 1898, 
p.316) 

Cary, Phoebe. Our good president. (See Cary, Alice &- Phoebe. Poetical works. 1891, 
p.309-10) 

Holmes, O. W. For the services in memory of Lincoln. Boston, June 1865. (See his 
Complete poetical works. Cambridge ed. 1895, p. 208) 

Howe, M. A. DeW. Memory of Lincoln. Poems selected, with an introduction. 82 p. S. 
Boston, 1899. Small, $1. 

Larcom, Lucy. Lincoln's passing bell. (See her Poetical works. 1881 p. 103) 

Lowell, J. R. Extract from the Commemoration ode. (See his Poetical works. House- 
hold ed. 1890, p. 398) 

Stedman, E. C. Hand of Lincoln. (See his Poems now first collected. 1897, p. 5 ; also 
Outlook, v.88. p 259-60, Feb. 1, 1908) 

Stevenson, B. E. & Lievenson, E. B. comp. Lincoln's birthday. (See their Days 
and deeds. N.Y. 1906. p. 193-98. Baker, $1) 

A collection of poems relating to American holidays and great Americans ; particularly useful for special 
day programs. 

Whitman, Walt. Memories of President Lincoln. (See his Leaves of grass. 1899, 
p.255-63) 

O captain ! my captain ! (See Stedman, E. C. American anthology. 1900, p. 231-32; 

also, Wiggin, K. D. &■ Smith, N. A. Golden numbers. 1903, p.323-24) 

Prose 

Andrews, Mrs M. R. (Shipman). Perfect tribute. 47p. D. N.Y. 1906. Scribner, 50c. 
(See also Scribner, v.40, p. 17-24, July 1906) 

A story about Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, charmingly written, though not historically accurate. 

Emerson, R. W. Remarks at the funeral service held in Concord. April 19, 1865. (See 
his Complete works. 1892, v. I I. p. 307- 15 ; see also Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln, 
an essay, 1871-99, p.77-83. Riverside lit. ser. no. 133) 

Lowell, J. R. Abraham Lincoln. (See his My study window. 1893, p. 150-77: see 
also Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. 1871-99, Riverside lit. ser. no. 133 6- 132, p. 7-36) 

Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln, an essay ; the Gettysburg speech and other papers by 
Abraham Lincoln ; together with testimonies by Emerson, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell. 
98 p. D. Bost. 1871-99. Houghton, 40c. (Riverside lit. ser. no. 133 6- 132) 

A collection of the most noteworthy brief tributes to Lincoln, together with his best speeches ; most useful 
single volume of Lincoln material for school use. 

Tarbell, I. M. He knew Lincoln. 40 p. D. NY. 1907. McClure, 50c. (See also 
American magazine, Feb. 1907) 

An illiterate country storekeeper talks about Lincoln in a way that gives a faithful picture and that will 
appeal to every kind of reader. 

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LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



^HE compiler of the Dictionary of Con* 
\* gress in preparing that work for pub' 
lication in 1858 sent to Lincoln the usual 
request for a sketch of his life and received 
the following reply : 

"Born February 12, 1809 in Hardin 
County, Kentucky. 
%r =sHSt|| Education Defective. Profession a Law- 

r Ji* ?£~ & r -~~ _^_ yer. Have been a Captain of Volunteers 

' ?Iii 4L****liify ' n ^lack Hawk War. Postmaster at a 

very small office. Four times a member 

Lincoln's tomb Q f the j||j nois Legislature and was a menv 

ber of the Lower House of Congress. 

Yours, etc. 

A. LINCOLN" 



LINCOLN'S MAGNANIMITY 



UPON the second day of the decisive battle of Gettysburg President 
Lincoln wrote an official order as Commander in Chief to 
General Meade, the Union commander, directing him to intercept 
Lee's retreat and give him another battle. The general had been in 
command of the army but five or six days, and as his predecessors had 
been much criticized for failures, the President knew he would be 
cautious about risking a battle after having gained one. He sent the 
order by a special messenger, with a private note saying that this 
seemed to him to be the thing to do, but that he would leave it to the 
ultimate decision of the military commander on the ground. The 
official order was not a matter of record, and he said need not be. 
If Meade would undertake the movement, and it was successful, he 
need say nothing about it. If it failed, he could publish the order 
immediately. In other words : " Go ahead. Make an heroic attempt to 
annihilate that army in its disheartened state and before it can recross 
the river. If the attempt succeeds, you take the glory of it; and if it 
fails I will take the responsibility of it." 

From an address by Dr A. S. Draper, on Lincoln's birthday, at the University of 
Illinois, iSqb 

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Copyright 1901 by Detroit riiotograpliic Co. 

Saint Gaudens statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago 



No grace of line or grandeur of mass ; only a chair behind the standing figure to eke out the stringiness 
of the legs and in a measure to build up the composition. Nor could the sculptor snatch an easy triumph 
through any heroic rendering of the figure, spare and elongated, in clothes uncompromisingly ordinary. But 
the man as he was, and just because he chanced to be the man he was, was great, and in the fearless 
acceptance of this fact the sculptor has seized his opportunity. The statue is planted firmly on the right foot 
—not every statue really stands upon its feet— the right arm held behind the back— these are the charac- 
teristic gestures of stability, tenacity and reflection : while the advance of the left leg and the grip of the left 
hand upon the lapel of the coat bespeak the man of action. With such completeness are these complex 
qualities suggested and then crowned with the solemn dignity of the declined head, so aloof in impenetrable 
meditation, that the homely figure has a grandeur and a power of appeal which are irresistible. 

Caffin, American Masters of Sculpture 



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SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS 

1 am proud, my friends, to have had an opportunity to study Lincoln's life. If any of you have failed 
to take advantage of that opportunity, do not let another year go by without making a thorough study of that 
career. It is an epitome of Americanism. It will realize all that you have dreamed of and all that you can 
possibly imagine. It is simply the representation of a man upon whose brow God had written the line of 
superiority, who never arrogated it to himself except in his great function of discharging the highest offic of 
government. Defeated again and again, failing to realize the ambition that was next to him— again and again he 
rose by sheer force of intellect and character until he came to the point where a nation's burden was put upon 
him, and he carried it so nobly that forever he will be to us a nation's representative of the typical American. 
From a n address on Lincoln at New York city, on February 12, igoS, by Governor Hughes 

It is not practicable to outline programs for the Lincoln centenary 
exercises in all the schools, but it is to be hoped that teachers will arouse 
in the pupils throughout the State new zeal in what Governor Hughes 
calls " a thorough study of that career." Let the story of Lincoln's 
life be the supplemental reading in all the grades and suggest the study 
of, and the writing of compositions and essays upon, such topics as 
Lincoln's birthplace, his schooling, his love for books, his home in Indiana, 
his first home in Illinois, his trip to New Orleans, his experience as clerk 
in a country store, his service in the Black Hawk War, his experience 
in the Illinois Legislature, his study of law, his position as deputy surveyor 
of Sangamon county, his postmastership at New Salem, his love for 
Ann Rutledge, his removal to Spn ^rield, his marriage to Mary Todd, 
his election to Congress, his debates with Douglas, the campaign of 
1860, the inauguration in 1861, the President and his Cabinet, the 
Emancipation Proclamation, his experience with his generals, his second 
election, and his assassination. Then let one or two of the best com' 
positions and essays be read by the writers at the exercises. 

Let the Gettysburg speech and extracts from the second inaugural 
address be read, let familiar war songs be sung, let notable poems be 
repeated, and. let every pupil have some part in the exercises if nothing 
more than to speak a sentence from Lincoln's own words. 

Bring into the schoolroom, wherever possible, men and women who 
knew Lincoln, and veterans who served under him during the Civil 
War. There are many people living who saw Lincoln on his memor- 
able journey through New York State on his way to Washington, 
who looked upon his face when the sad funeral journey was made to 
Springfield in 1865 over almost the same route. Let the school children 
hear something of both occasions from actual eye witnesses. 

Make the exercises the occasion for adding books upon Lincoln to 
the library, and for hanging a picture of Lincoln in the schoolroom. 

Do not confine the exercises to the material in this pamphlet nor to 
the suggestions upon this page. Plan your exercises to meet the con- 
ditions in your own school. The important thing is that you plan 
to do something to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of 
Lincoln's birth, and to impress upon the minds and hearts of your 
pupils the great lesson of his great life. 



Heroic soul, in homely garb half hid, 

Sincere, sagacious, melancholy, quaint, 
What he endured no less than what lie did, 

Has reared his monument and crowned him saint. 

J. T. Trowbridge 




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